Centre for Development Policy and Research

Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development (FESSUD)

The FESSUD Project

The Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD) project is a multidisciplinary project which aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs.

The FESSUD Project runs for 5 years from 01/12/2011 to 30/11/2016 and aims to affect policy makers, representatives of the business sector, the civil society sector, researchers and citizens based in different EU member states and beyond.

FESSUD brings together expertise from many leading universities to look afresh at how the financial system affects the world around us. FESSUD explores the nature of the relationship between financialisation (the processes of the growth of the importance of financial systems, finance and financial motives) and the sustainability of the financial system, economic and social development and the environment.

The research programe of FESSUD integrates diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms.

FESSUD Institutional Partners

The FESSUD project is made up of a team of economists and other social scientists from across Europe and South Africa, working at 14 leading universities and one European non-government organisation.

University of Leeds, UK (Coordinator)

University of Siena, Italy

SOAS, University of London, UK

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France

Pour la Solidarite, Brussels, Belgium

Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Hungary

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Lund University, Sweden

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

FESSUD Members at SOAS

Led by the University of Leeds the project involves the following SOAS researchers: